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Thank you Bob! I had never noticed that (or I had forgotten) but there they are on page 17.

But I can't believe they raced these things running 0 degrees of camber on the front. Lots of weight up front. So I will continue my hunt for race specs, if anyone knows. But thank you.

Here are the specs published in the first issue of the Marque, the old Shelby American automobile club magazine. It purports to be the factory specifications for alignment on a 427 street car. Obviously lots of people consider this to be proprietary information and I'm not aware of any place that the competition car specs have ever been published. It would just be a starting point in any event but I'd be kind of interested to see what the settings were

No gurus left in SAAC. Wow.

Who knows the correct factory recommendations for the suspension on a 427 S/C with bronze bushings? What is the loaded ride height, camber and toe, front and rear? Goodyear Blue Streaks. I have street specs, but no accurate comp specs.

Any gurus out there?

Kim

Dave, if you are curious, send off a sample of the old stuff and the new stuff and have it tested. It cost me$35.00 for piece of mind.

Thank you all for the advice. I settled on "Driven" break in oil from Joe  Gibbs racing. 1800 ppm zinc. 20w50 wt.

I will let you all know how it works.

Now...what to do with all that Valvoline?..

For the past 25 years or so, I have used Pennziol 25w50 Racing oil exclusively in all my flat tappet engine cars. Never a problem. I ate a camshaft once before that when Pennzoil took all the ZDDP out of there street car oil 20w50.
Last year, after Pennzoil was sold to Shell, they discontinued the product and it is now unobtainium.
I did a pile of research on the Internet and decided that Valvoline VR1 Racing oil would be the stuff to use. Didn't want to start mixing my own oil etc. I looked at all the alternatives. There is a lot of junk on the Internet. But I bought $500.00 of the stuff to make the switch.

But just to be safe, I had the old stuff (of which I still have a bottle or two) analyzed along with the VR1.
Low and behold, it has only 65% of the zinc that the Pennzoil has. VR1 1304 ppm, phosphorus 1179 ppm. Pennzoil zinc 2014 ppm, phosphorus 1826 ppm.
I can post the reports as soon as my kid shows me how. But this is no bs, virgin new oil samples. So forget any hype you read elsewhere. "designed for flat tappet engines" etc. All bs.

My question to the gurus is, now what? I know I am not the only one with this issue.

The McCartneys are in!

No clue. Somewhere in Nova Scotia.
I'm looking. Guy in the video might be a Kiwi as he is talking about John Olsen.

Dan, I would definitely be in but I don't know whether the border with Canada is going to be open.

I just remember all the later cars had wings and flares. This one looks post '74 but pre '80 to me. Maybe an earlier model that sat and went to CS for publicity.

I could look it up in the library but I am not that interested. I like Cobras.

Not an '83 imho.

Ozark looks great but too far for everybody I think.

Dryer sheets of fabric softener. They hate the smell and stay away.

Outside of the car, cups of ammonia.

Ford vs Ferrari turned out to be a very nearly perfect thing. Wide auduance appeal, no political correctness BS, huge movie stars (except Matt Damon was too short to play Shelby). I saw it when it premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival. All the stars were in the audience and Roy Thomson Hall was filled to the roof. SRO.

I don't think we can repeat that feat when most of the audience drives an appliance. No one remembers the space program or the Rat Pack.

But...James Margolis was forced by the studio to cut 15 or 20 minutes out of the theatrical release.

Anybody out there with enough connections to get release of a Director's Cut?